When comparing Dell Latitude 7285 vs Acer Swift 3 SF314-51-57CP, the Slant community recommends Dell Latitude 7285 for most people. In the question“What are the best laptops for business?”Dell Latitude 7285 is ranked 7th while Acer Swift 3 SF314-51-57CP is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Dell Latitude 7285 is:

The Latitude 7285 has three compatible keyboards to choose from. There's the obvious wireless charging keyboard, an ultra-slim keyboard built to be portable and a productivity keyboard equipped with a power pack that adds an additional four hours of battery life to the laptop.

Pros

Pro

Has three different keyboard to choose from

The Latitude 7285 has three compatible keyboards to choose from. There's the obvious wireless charging keyboard, an ultra-slim keyboard built to be portable and a productivity keyboard equipped with a power pack that adds an additional four hours of battery life to the laptop.

Pro

Good performance for the price

The Swift 3 performs quite well for the price and laptop class it belongs to. Everyday tasks are handled without problem, multitasking is not a problem neither, and it can also play some lightweight games (DoTA, LoL, Team Fortress 2) at decent framerates as well as some more demanding software such as Photoshop and Matlab without overheating the hardware or lagging.

Pro

Great trackpad

The trackpad is a bit larger than average and feels great to the touch, albeit a bit rougher than most trackpads out there. It performs really well with standard swipes, taps, and gestures and has no stuttering or jumpiness.

Pro

Great build quality

For an entry model, the Acer Swift 3 has great build quality. The chassis is solid and there's absolutely no bending in either the chassis or the hood. The outer case is built from aluminum and the inner chassis is made of plastic.

Pro

Upgradeable storage

Unfortunately the CPU and RAM are soldered on the motherboard so they can't be upgraded, however the storage is not and can be easily swapped and upgraded if one needs to do so.

Pro

Portable

The Swift 3 is a pretty light and compact laptop. It weight around 3.35 lbs and is 0.7″ thick. The screen size is 14" which is well within the small category as far as laptop screens go.

Pro

Decent keyboard

The keys have a slightly concave shape and a soft finishing which makes them feel great to touch and they also provide pretty good feedback.

Pro

Good battery life

The Swift 3 can get a good 10 hours of use (sometimes even more) with simple tasks such as web browsing or watching videos. This is true for both the models with i3 and i5 CPUs.

Cons

Con

The wireless charging pad and keyboard are sold separately

In order to be able to actually wirelessly charge this laptop, you will need to buy the wireless charging keyboard and wireless charging pad which are both sold separately from the laptop.

Con

The charging pad can't be used to charge smartphones as well

Since the charging pad for this laptop uses the WiTricity standard instead of the more widely-used Qi standard for wireless chargers, you can't use it for much else besides this laptop.

Con

Comes with some bloatware

The Swift 3 comes with some bloatware out of the box which may influence performance.

Con

Fairly noisy

The Acer Swift 3 has two small fans which sit on the CPU and GPU. Unfortunately they are rather agressive and start spinning even at low temperatures. Even something as simple as opening a browser will prompt both fans to start spinning quite fast. If you also keep in mind that both these fans have a fairly high pitched hum, then it's soon clear that this laptop is not the quietest on the market.

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